At the 26th Chithirai Nataka Vizha organised by Sri Krishna Gana Sabha in Chennai, chief guest mridanga maestro Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman conferred the title 'Nataka Choodamani' on S.B. Khanthan, and presented the 'Poornam New Theatres' Rolling Trophy for the best drama troupe to Vivek Shankar's Prayatna and the 'Iyakunar Sigaram K.Balachander Award for Excellence in Theatre' to S.N. Parvathi. Also in the picture are Vivek Shankar, Crazy Mohan, Kathadi Ramamurthy, Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti (President, SKGS, Saashwathi Prabhu and R. Venkateswaran, Joint Secretary, SKGS).